Re: [microsound] Chuck

["\\js" <js0000@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi

On 9/27/06, alex <alex@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Also many of the people behind Perl are complete religious nutcases.
> For example in a recent talk (state of the onion 10) Larry Wall railed
> against family planning.

this is completely not true!

larry is a bit nuts [as are most of the people on this list] but this
is what he said about family planning:

> And, of course, "family planning" is for when you plan not to have a family. Go figure.
> All of my kids were unplanned, but that doesn't mean they were unwanted.
[http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html?page=2]

as a linguist he is pointing out the inconsistency of the phrase
'family planning'. also, it was in the context of a drawn out
metaphorical description about perl as one of his kids [the entire
article is a good read if you have an active intellect or kids or
both]

and anyway, you can do whatever you want with perl [or haskell or
chuck or ..]. if you make a decision on whether to use a programming
language or not based on [mis-]perceived character flaws of it's
creators- well ... good luck to you!

> Free software always has a great buzz around, makes finding answers
> to questions very easy...

yeah- it's that community buzz ...

btw. the most complete perl 6 implementation runs on top of haskell
[in case you want to catch that community buzz again ...].

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\js  [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ]

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